From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 19:04:49 GMT-3
At 5:51 PM -0400 4/19/02, Robert L. DuBell wrote:
>I'm a Navy Chief, and when I say "watch this shi*", everybody runs !.....
>
>Bob
>CCIE #9105
Wonder how many of your networking stories begin "TINS"?
To keep things reasonably clean, I'm sure you know the difference
between a fairy tail and a sea story. The first starts "once upon a
time," while the second begins "hey, this really happened".
I'll have to send you my story of the commander I convinced that
taking terminators off coax Ethernets would make the bits fall out.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
>To: "Ccielab (E-mail)" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:51 PM
>Subject: RE: CCIE Salary
>
>
>> At 1:11 PM -0700 4/19/02, McMasters, Eric wrote:
>> >It's all about the military...rank is the key.
>> >
>> >Example:
>> >Kevin is a Staff Sergeant, and a CCIE. The guy that works at the base
>gym
>> >handing out towels is also a Staff Sergeant, so they both make approx.
>the
>> >same. (Changes a little based on how long you have been in.)
>> >
>> >The big bonus is that you can get all of the experience and education for
>> >free. That kinda makes up for only making around 20k/yr. Although I
>> >thought it really sucked when I was only making 6k/yr when I first
>enlisted.
>> >
>> >However, I wouldn't trade those 9 years for anything...boy do I have some
>> >stories!
>> >
>> >Eric
>>
>> IIRC, you're Air Force. I wonder if there's some military networking
>> equivalent to the Navy list of Most Dangerous Things:
>>
>> Seaman: Wonder what would happen if I did this...
>> Chief: This always worked before.
>> Ensign: In my opinion...
>> Captain: If I wanted your opinion, I'd tell you what it is
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